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BOOK REVIEW – DECISION POINTS

Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Only Yesterday A president remembers what some have forgotten. Philip Terzian November 22, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 10 Decision Points by George W. Bush Crown, 512 pp., $35 The president left the White House with abysmal approval ratings, and a war which had begun well—enjoying widespread support and historic […]

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THE ROCHE RECORD – FRANK ROCHE, ECONOMIST

Home About Me Contact Me December 4, 2010 INDUSTRIAL GIANT GE GETS FED MONEY? This week the Federal Reserve released documents showing who they assisted during the peak of the financial crisis in late 2008 early 2009.  A surprise to many was to find the industrial giant GE on the list and that they borrowed

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$600 BILLION BOND PURCHASE CRITICIZED BY GOP ECONOMISTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2010 Fresh Attack on Fed Move GOP Economists, Lawmakers Call for Abandoning $600 Billion Bond Purchase By PETER WALLSTEN And SUDEEP REDDY WASHINGTON—The Federal Reserve’s latest attempt to boost the U.S. economy is coming under fire from Republican economists and politicians, threatening to yank the central bank deeper into partisan politics. A group

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EMBARRASSMENT IN SEOUL

NOVEMBER 13, 2010 The world won’t follow slow-growth, weak-dollar America. Has there ever been a major economic summit where a U.S. President and his Treasury Secretary were as thoroughly rebuffed as they were at this week’s G-20 meeting in Seoul? We can’t think of one. President Obama failed to achieve any of his main goals

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A GROWTH AGENDA FOR THE NEW CONGRESS – ART LAFFER

NOVEMBER 12, 2010, 4:09 P.M. ET For now: Extend the Bush tax cuts, repeal ObamaCare, support free trade. After 2012: Enact a flat tax, stabilize prices, balance the budget, give politicians incentive pay. By ARTHUR LAFFER Since its cyclical zenith in December 2007, U.S. economic production has been on its worst trajectory since the Great

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THE ROCHE RECORD

THE ROCHE RECORD by Frank Roche, Economist November 8, 2010 LIBERTARIANS, GOLD BUGS, EXPORT COUNTRIES CONDEM FED ACTIONS An article was recently forwarded to me by a friend, who like many of us, is concerned about the state of our economy today, and increasingly alarmed by the rhetoric coming from the media, Libertarians, gold standard advocates, and countries

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BERNANKE’S FOLLY

AMERICAN  THINKER November 09, 2010 Bernanke’s Cowardice Has Sealed Our Fate By Monty Pelerin The day after the election, the Federal Reserve launched QE2, the second round of Quantitative Easing. This public relations euphemism attempts to hide the fact that the Fed is “printing money” (the Fed actually does it electronically these days). “Cheating, debasing,

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IT’S THE MONEY, STUPID

Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) It’s the Money, Stupid Papering over our economic problems. Jeffrey Bell and Sean Fieler October 18, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 05 Thomas Hoenig, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, is the only significant public official on record in opposition to the easy-money, zero-interest-rate monetary policy being

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